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The changing state of microstakes.
There are several, nay.. well hell lets just go around one of my tables. We have a 35/0, a 50/10, 31/10, and another 50/0.
They're making tons of mistakes preflop, but they really nit it up post flop and its incredibly difficult to extract. Basically they dont reraise without the nuts, and they certainly don't stack off lightly. They c/fold lots of flops, and their take on exploitation is to donk bet A LOT (i'd estimate around 65% of pots get donkbetted) to force you to fold overcards.
Conventional wisdom says the key to beating the microstakes is to play really tight, ABCish, flop sets get paid, fold everything else kinda poker because the microstakes players take their top pairish hands way too far.
But that is no longer the state of microstakes games as far as I can see. There are of course the truly terrible players, but they rarely last more than a few orbits, and they tend to buy in short anyway.
And I'm more or less failing to adjust to the weaktighties. Clearly when they raise we need to have a good hand to continue. But I want to say we should be playing more 25/20 and less 15/10 poker simply because thats the way to combat nutcampers -- make them fold when tehy miss, and when they hit our range is too wide to stack off.
Thoughts?
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